Hide By definition, Civil War tokens are substitute money, not federal issues, coined privately during the Civil War period from April 1861 to April 1865. The icing on the cake was the second week of July in 1862, when even the copper-nickel Flying Eagle and Indian cents disappeared. Pointing. // --> . This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") &&
That is especially true for off-metals, especially when the asking price is over the price for a "normal" piece in copper, brass or bronze. 1. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. Civil War tokens were issued between 1861 and 1864 because there was a total scarcity of coinage. First Battle of Bull Run. // -->